Hi,
I was using shubCRAFT RMNET for over a month, PROBLEM FREE. I stupidly decided to take shub off and put on another build. Now when I try to put on ANY build, and I've tried at least 20, it freezes durning the Heret Process. when all the text is scrolling down the screen it freezes there. I've waited over an hour. I did a task 29, I formatted my sd card, not a quick format but a good format. and all I'm putting on the sd card is the build and it won't boot, it freezes on the haret screen.
Any Ideas?
Thanks
Kn0t
oh yea,, and everything I stated up above, those questions were answered somewhere or another on here, but they say that I'm doing it %100 Correctly. If anyone else has had this problem or may of heard of it and knows of a solution please let me know, it's rough going back to winmo after a month of 2.2 froyo,, know what I mean, oh and I was also using an Energy Rom witch were ALWAYs great with android for me.
Thanks a lot,
Kn0t
Ok so here's the deal. I had the OTA from T-Mobile pop up on my phone early this morning. Not fully thinking that decision through, I let it do its thing. I went back to sleep for a little bit, and when I woke up (30 minutes later) it was still on the boot up screen. I let it sit some more while I jumped on here to read what other people were experiencing. An hour and a half later, it's still on the same screen.
Next I pull the battery and pop it back in and try to get into recovery mode... No go. I try this at least ten times and it would go black and then come right back to the Vibrant screen. Now irritated, I search around more intently now on what i should do but none of the threads or google searches I pulled up are of people yielding the same results. Some time in my searching away the key lights light up and remain that way for a good ten minutes (from what i saw) but nothing else happens. I let it sit for another half hour roughly with no positive results.
I pull the battery yet again and this time when I try to access recovery mode, it works. Ecstatic that i'm making some progress, I load a nandroid that I saved last week. I let it do its thing then when it's complete I opt to reboot the phone. Now here we are back at square one because it just sits at the Vibrant screen. Mind you this isn't my first time restoring a backup on an android phone and I am aware that it takes a while for the initial boot to get everything going. 45 minutes later... I still have nothing. I can get back into recovery but that's about as far as that goes.
I've exhausted my personal resources and I've never used ODIN (not even exactly sure what that is). Is there anyone else that has experienced this same exact dilemma or am I a one man show on this one? My main reason for diligently trying to restore my phone is I don't want to lose any of my media etc.
Is there any hope for me? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
you wont lose any media as long as you have photos and videos save to your external SD card (not the 16 GB). you'll lose settings, programs, and contacts saved to your phone; but all contacts are usually saved to your gmail account anyways.
if you're phone is stuck at the vibrant screen, you have to do the odin trick. the odin trick is very easy ans straight forward; longest thing is downloading the package from the thread. you will lose all of your phone settings and contacts, but not the media as long as you saved it to your smaller SD card. if you don't want to lose those settings/contacts...then you'll also be stuck with a phone stcuk at the vibrant screen.
Try this thread.. it's a common problem with the OTA. If you just follow the second set of instructions to flash to JI6 without a pit file or repartitioning, your data should not be affected.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803492
This worked for many of us to fix the problem.
The problem is I don't have all that stuff saved to the external. It's all on the 16GB i'm afraid.
Going to attempt the ODIN process right meow.
bdveteran18 said:
The problem is I don't have all that stuff saved to the external. It's all on the 16GB i'm afraid.
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The flash to JI6 shouldn't touch any user data on the internal 16 GB either.. at least it didn't in my experience. Don't use the PIT file or repartition and you *should* be fine.
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The flash to JI6 shouldn't touch any user data on the internal 16 GB either.. at least it didn't in my experience. Don't use the PIT file or repartition and you *should* be fine.
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Thank you for the info. Going to try and see where it gets me
Same thing just happened to me man. Let me know if this works for you. I am rooted but I have never used ODIN
Hello all, I have decided to catalog all of the missing icons and rebooting issues into one spot as I have just received a new phone from Toshiba because my old phone repeatedly rebooted upon boot... and now my new phone is repeatedly rebooting upon boot, which is the same thing that my old phone did! Also, I can't remember how I solved the "missing icons from programs installed on SD card problem" but I have that same problem again. Now, I live in Japan, I have tried most of the radios, could living in Japan cause my phone to reboot? Like could the radio when it is trying to connect to the tower not like the signal and then fux up n' reboot? I need help, I know Kevin P. White played around with this issue, I know that most of the people on this board had this issue at one time or another. Any ideas friends?
SD Card Missing Icons Issue & Problems loading apps installed on SD Card
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=578834
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7262188#post7262188
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9046202&highlight=ffboy#post9046202
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7046845&highlight=ffboy#post7046845
http://www.modaco.com/content/toshiba-tg01-tg01-modaco-com/303742/problem-installing-apps-to-sd-card/
http://www.modaco.com/content/toshiba-tg01-tg01-modaco-com/298349/tg01-freeze-on-programs-installed-on-sd/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=691011&highlight=icons
Rebooting Issue
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=648809
I tell you, if someone can help me with the rebooting issue, it would be so much appreciated. It is so frickin’ annoying to have the phone just almost boot up, then freeze for about 2-3 minutes before rebooting, then it will do this 3-4 times before it is stable. Someone else has to have this problem as I just got a brand spankin' new phone from Toshiba, and I still am experiencing the same problems that I did before. Thank you,
What the hell am I doing wrong? It must be my fault right?... I mean... There is no way that two phones from Toshiba could be having the same problem, so what am I doing that very few other people are doing?
I have tried using all of my stupid skills to come up with a solution, but... no avail. I need help.
-Kilimessed.
PS: I will fix this problem, this post will catalog all of the known issues and fixes with this device, I can promise you, I will fix this basterd.
[UPDATE] - Trying one of FFBOY's roms [ROM][ENG]FFBOY'S WM6.5 21914+Manila 20161332!Radio5005.1700.05!8/8 - I read in one of those posts that he uses a different SD Card driver. Will report back later.
[UPDATE2] - It is later now, I do not have an SD card problem anymore, FFBOY's rom has definitly solved that issue, however, the rebooting problem still persists. It will begin to boot, just past the splash screen, then freeze for 10seconds to 2minutes depending upon the barametric pressure at that time... ehheeh.. **** ... i donno.. but.. anyways.. if someone can help me with the rebooting problem, that would be much apreciated. Ok, so I have done the following, I have removed the SD card and the SIM card but it still freezes/reboots 2-3 times before loading windows. Anyone else here having the same issue?
The solution to all these issues is simple : Don't install your applications onto the SD Card.
Once you've moved everything into the phone memory, you'll find it all works much better !
What about the cycle boot freeze problem? Oh man, I would give anything to have my stupid phone boot properly!... Again, it will freeze 2-3 times, then it will boot properly, it doesn't matter if there is no sim card and/or sd card installed at the time. Anyone experienced this?
Hi Kilihari! I had a similar problem with my TG01. I'm not firm in programming windows mobile, so I can't give you an advice in this direction...
but when that occured on my TG (plus freezing phone when press slightly on the backside of it), I sent it to the Toshiba-service partner for warranty - and got it back, still having the same problem -freezing after light pressure on the back-cover and independent from that (occured before) recycling boot (only 30% of the boot-trials worked properly). So I recorded a video with the problems and sent it back to Toshiba service the next day...
The result: My phone received a new motherboard, new IMEI etc. Which one of the two faults was the cause for replacement...i don't know, but maybe the recycling boot is rather a hardware-fault-caused problem than software-caused...
Good luck in finding a solution!
mcmurzen
i ther, I have not had a problem with rebooting but I do get the missing icons quite a lot.
I find that using Sense roms is fine, I assume that while Sense is loading the system has more time to scan the sd card and load the icons. But this has a knock on effect on both memory and battery life.
I did find a rom somewhere (cant remember which one) which had a very lengthy boot/startup animation and the icons appeard fine. But it took a while to load so I changed this to a more traditional logo and the icons dissapeared.
I uninstalled this but the icons never came back and I did read that by changing the startup wait times this could also fix the problem so I tried experimenting and trashed my TG01 and I had to hard reset to clear and since then I have not 'experimented' since.
If someone has some spare time on their hands and dosent mind all the reboots they may find an answer but in the end I had to make customised icons and use JWD icon changer
Thanks guys for your help, I am sending my phone back to Toshiba, I will do this up again, I will pay for it, I don't care, I got to get this fixed.
Good luck and keep us posted
Problem Solved!!!!
Good news.
So I decided to give it one last shot, to try just one more time to get my phone working properly. I turned it on and preformed a “Master Clear” on my phone, stock Toshiba ROM freshly downloaded from their website, just to give it one more shot. I didn’t want to take out my SIM card from my secondary ASUS phone so I just took the pre-paid “Pay-as-you-go” SIM card from Softbank Mobile here in Japan (we use it sometimes when we have company over from Canada). A very interesting thing happened... right from the very beginning, I noticed that my phone was much more responsive and stable, I noticed that it didn’t freeze or reboot. It was perfect. The radio for the Japanese Docomo T01a is 5005.1901.1.20 which must make it possible for it to work with Japanese SIM cards, of course the new radio for UK Orange is 5001.0001.76. My "pay-you-go" SIM card looks like the previous generation's SIM, whereas my official Softbank SIM card looks newer. Anyways, the pay-as-you go SIM works, well the other SIM worked too, but this time my phone doesn't reboot, IT IS STABLE!!!! Meaning my phone is good. If anyone would like me to go further and take some photos of the SIMs, I can, just so if anyone encounters this problem ever again, we now have some additional information for the people in this community. If someone is experiencing the same problem as I am, you can just get a pay-as-you-go card or use a different carrier’s card and it might work, but the rebooting at boot and random freezes are not caused because of defect in my phone.
WoW.... I can't believe after a year and a half of pain, misery, and suffering, that it all came down to a stupid pay-as-you-go SIM card... also, my phone still froze without a SIM card in it, but after I had put in the pay-as-you-go SIM card, then it froze one more time, but the second time it booted, and then after it booted properly, then it has been good ever since, even without a SIM… now it is good. I can't believe this... honestly can't believe this. Even if it reboots once a day, there is no problem with that, but it has been totally stable... holy ****.... holy crap, it hasn’t rebooted in a whole DAY!!!! Moral of the story, buying a phone from a different country has issues related to it. EHEEHHEEHH.. Ummm... weirdest thing, ok, so, it seems like the pay-as-you-go card updated something in my phone or, allowed something to update. Then I put in my normal SIM card and all is good. When my phone starts to act funny, then I pop back in the pay-as-you-go SIM card for a minute, then turn off my phone and then put back in my normal Softbank SIM card. WOW!!
Also, Supbro's iContacts, iDialer, GreenButton and Ashiqiqbal's Host v1.5 are awesome programs... I feel like a kid in a candy story who has been held back savoring the sweet smells of the candy for over a year, I am now just installing program after program on this phone, just playing with things, eating all the candy!
-kilisoefenhappy
I was hesitant to do all of this "programming" on my phone cause i'm a noob when it comes to this but i did it anyway back in september. I have had to take my battery out and reboot my phone 1-5 times a week since (still worth having android) and when i reboot then try to launch the android installer on the energy (rom?) a lot of times the screen turns white, usually after a few attempts it will work. Today however when i launch this linux runs smoothly then instead of the android screen i get the energy screen and the phone reboots, everytime. I haven't messed with this in 4 months so i don't remember how to do all of this to check for errors. Ideally i would like to be able to make my hd2 hav android run smoothly all the time, can someone point me in the right direction?
Go to NAND over running off the memory card. The info on the card may have been corrupted in some way. Basically when it goes to boot it's not seeing the files on the card so it reboots back to Windows.
i dont quite know what that means but i think it means reinstall, but with the NAND build? i'm going to research that
it worked thanks a lot man
Hey guys,
I'll try to keep this short. I have an HD2 that I've been running SD card Android builds with no problem. I didn't want to do a NAND flash just yet. I installed the EBL2.1a in Winmo and rebooted and all was well. I shut down, went back into Winmo, had it select the Gingerbread build I had on the card, to which it got to the Android logo, then just kept flashing the logo. I pulled the battery and now it wont turn back on! Just a black screen, just like its dead. I tried the reset button and tried a hard reset and still nothing. Any ideas?? I didnt think an SD card build could do any damage to the phone, so I'm really confused. ANY help/insight you could provide would be MUCH appreciated.
DISREGARD. I pulled the SIM and the SD card and now Its working again. WHEW! Weird.
Ugh. Scratch that. EBL just tried to load that gingerbread build again, and the same thing happened. I was trying to get it to select the proper Android build and somehow it selected the Gingerbread build not in the "Android" folder. Now its completely dead. Again. I removed the SD card and SIM and tried again with no luck. Im thinking it was just a time thing and I need to leave it for a while with the battery out. This is so weird tho. Hopefully it'll power back up again and I can just remove the EBL.
EDIT: Waited about 5 minutes and It's back to normal again. It's quite weird how an SD ROM can hard lock a phone like that. I'm not a developer, so I'm sure there's something I don't know, though.
EDIT AGAIN. Found the problem. It turns out the battery contacts are getting weak and bend a little if the battery is not inserted perfectly.
I know I'm basically talking to myself in this thread, but hopefully this little diatribe will help others who might run into the same issue.